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Happy holidays! The end of the year is just around the corner and this marks our last medical newsletter for 2013. We would like to thank all our readers, clients, contributors and business partners for your support throughout the year. We wish you a restful, peaceful, safe and enjoyable festive season! Till 2014! All the best from the Bizcommunity.com Team!
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Following its Pioneers of Health Challenge, Good Worldwide Inc has announced the selected winners who will participate in the four-day Pioneers of Health Conference being held in Cape Town at the UCT Graduate School of Business in the V&A Waterfront from 10-13 December 2013. Read more >> | Students who are considering studying medicine abroad need to be aware that after qualification, they will need to comply with registration and other requirements if they would come back to practice as doctors in South Africa. Read more >> | Bill Hathaway Using a cell's own internal machinery, Yale researchers have produced proteins not found in nature that can cause cancer in mice, they report 16 December 2013 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more >> |
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 | Kone Gugushe HIV/AIDS remains a significant threat to our country's future. According to the 2012 statistics from the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), there are about 6.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa and this is an increase of 700 000 from 2008. Read more >>
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 | The vast variety of environments is one reason researchers have a difficult time determining what causes a children to develop asthma - a disease that growing evidence suggests is associated with microbial exposure. Read more >>
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 | Helen Dodson Breast cancer patients suffering from joint pain caused by certain medications may improve with regular, long-term physical exercise, according to a new Yale-led study. The findings are being presented at the 2013 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Read more >>
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 | The Pirbright Institute in Surrey has been awarded £4.4 million to work with researchers from the universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford as well as the AHVLA (Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, TGAC (The Genome Analysis Centre) and Industry partners Merial, on a long-term study on the transmission of swine influenza. Read more >>
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 | Bill Hathaway Yale researchers have discovered a targeted way to make proteins not generally found in nature by expanding the information encrypted in the genetic code. Read more >>
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 | Tartrazine, derived from coal tar, is a commonly used colour all over the world, mainly for yellow. Used to give some foods a yellow colour, yellow dye number 5 is found in desserts and sweets, beverages, snacks and cereal. Read more >>
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|  | JAKARTA, INDONESIA: A commuter train collided with a fuel tanker in the Indonesian capital Jakarta killing at least five people and injuring 80 others as a women-only carriage derailed and burst into flames. Read more >>
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